''Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile'' (2004) is a SimulationGame developed by Tilted Mill Entertainment and part of the VideoGame/CityBuildingSeries. It's the SpiritualSuccessor of ''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}'' . Like its predecessor, the game is set in ancient Egypt, and in campaign and scenarios it follows the exploits of several dynasties throughout history. You'll get the chance to construct massive Mastabas and Pyramids, battle against other tribes and neighbours, and cultivate the fertile banks of the Nile, to provide places to worship the many Egyptian gods and to give a safe passage to the afterlife to your citizens and Pharaoh.

''Children of the Nile'' radically breaks with established concepts from previous games (such as walkers, apartment blocks for workers or active gods). It was also the first in the series to go fully 3D, but the graphics were found to be a bit lacking. It remains something of an odd one out among the games.

It received a minor ExpansionPack, ''Alexandria''.

[[http://immortalcities.com/cotn/ Official Site]]----!!This game provides examples of:* ZeroPercentApprovalRating / ApatheticCitizens: Your citizens will go on strike, protest in front of your palace and finally leave your city (this is very harmful if they are educated) if you don't cover their numerous demands and needs properly.* AncientEgypt: Merged with AncientGreece in the expansion, Alexandria was founded by UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat.* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Often the goal of a campaign includes building certain pyramids.* CommandAndConquerEconomy: ** Present regarding construction but minimized when it comes to logistics, the citizens must personally attend to their own needs as opposed to previous games in the series where things were delivered to their doors. ** Alluded, the citizens can occasionally be heard speaking of a golden age when a market lady brought pottery and linen right to your doorstep** There is a kind of dual economy as your civil servants get food (money) directly from your distribution facilities, but the rest of the citizens are a private group that have to trade and sell their wares in order to get it. They can scavenge for food if there is not enough, but this makes them quite unhappy.* ACommanderIsYou: As in previous games you are the administrator behind the recrutiment, training and composition of the army, but you only get to (tactically) command your troops if your city is invaded. You can strategically decide to invade other cities in the world map, but those battles happen offscreen.* DualModeUnit: Educated professionals can switch between several tasks; Commanders can train the army, lead the army, the navy or the local militia. Priests have four social roles and scribes and overseers have various censual and construction related modes available.* DueToTheDead: Afterlife is a fundamental aspect of the Egyptian culture, your citizens get very upset if there are not mortuary facilities available and your prestige suffers a big hit if a recently dead Pharaoh does not have a magnificent burial site.* FounderOfTheKingdom: You in the campaign. Founder of Alexandria too in the expansion.* GenerationalSaga: You play as a member of the [[RoyalBlood Royal Family]], as a dynasty; when your current Pharaoh dies you keep playing as his heir and have to bury the dead one. Every time a new ruler rises to the throne your prestige takes a hit as your new character is not renowned yet.* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Subverted, in a major departure from Pharaoh and the rest of the series, the gods are not supernatural beings but mere symbols. That's all, [[DivineIntervention no help, no curses]], just indirect results; the people get angsty if they can't worship them properly. Some gods are more important than others and their demand is dynamic (e.g people will want to worship Osiris a lot if a flood is expected to be poor) .* NonEntityGeneral: Averted, you character, the Pharaoh is another inhabbitant of the city and moves around [[TooImportantToWalk carried on a litter]]. He is buried in a specifically designated tomb when he dies. * OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: In a way: ''Inmortal Cities Children of the Nile'', SpiritualSuccessor of ''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}''.* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: The priests; they provide healthcare, teach students at schools, tend the gods at worship facilities and provide funerary services. * RagsToRiches: Most of your citizens are farmers and some even vagrants or muggers, but their families can and eventually will climb up the social ladder if the adequate jobs and education opportunities are available.* RealIsBrown: The game departs from the bright yellow tones of Pharaoh and the brown soil and dirt is one of the factors that make it look less cartoony are more realistic. That and years of computer and graphical improvements of course.* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: Averted, the buildings need bricks and a constructor to be physically present. And the monuments need a lot of special resources, workers and an overseer coordinating everything to have any work done. Then it realistically takes a huge amount of time to build huge structures.* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The Pharaoh or his heir usually preside over the courtroom and move around inspecting the buildings. The wife and her entourage buys household goods.* SpaceManagementGame: Comodity game sub-genre.* TopGod: There are over a dozen gods, but some, depending on the scenario, are more important than others and require greater buildings and complex temples accordingly.* UrbanSegregation: Optional. Ideally, to minimize walking time farmer houses would be placed near the river. The Palace and upper class houses are larger structures usually placed inland over a flat expanse. Shopkeepers and middle class services can be located between the two or placed where needed. Military camps, faraway resources and construction sites usually need to be supported with a new small neighbourhood to maximize efficiency.* VideoGameCaringPotential: It is possible to make all your citizens happy. Have your granaries full of food, give them jobs, have a good medical and mortuary coverage, keep the city safe with your soldiers and full of places to worship their favourite gods. Add lavish houses for the elite, fancy tombs for the nobles and a courtroom to solve disputes, and they will worship you* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Just reverse some of the above. Strikes, emigration and starvation will ensue, and [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment your city will quickly spiral into ruin]] as educated workers aren't easy to replace once they are gone.* WhatHaveYouDoneForMeLately: Your prestige score naturally degrades over time, requiring a steady stream of exploits and monuments to keep your educated elite from packing up and leaving.* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: ** Food is the [[GlobalCurrency actual currency]], and it's very seasonal and erratic at first as it comes from the harvests and the flooding cylce of the Nile. Other resources are gathered locally or traded.** Prestige is the other main resource as it allows to employ more educated citizens. It's obtained via monuments, beautifications and glorious achievements.* MedievalStasis: The game represents three thousand years of egyptian history exactly the same. The pyramids you're building throughout the game are 500 years in the future in the first campaign mission and 1000 years in the past in the last.----